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We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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In this paper, we assess educational factors which might have an impact on entrepreneurship. We analyze influences on … schooling under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) which might hamper entrepreneurship. Our … ground" for innovative entrepreneurship as described by Schumpeter (1912). Here we assume according to Falck et al. (2009 …
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background, this paper poses the question if entrepreneurship can be taught, and finds some answers in the data of a rich German …' entrepreneurial intentions. We choose this focus for two reasons. First, we are interested in entrepreneurship that contributes to … individuals who have a comparatively high probability of being innovative. Second, entrepreneurship courses and professorships …
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We apply a multi-level approach to analyze simultaneously the effects of three groups of determinants on new firm formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis indicates that innovation activities and the...
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We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
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